SCORSESIAN EPIC
No one in the history of cinema has become such an expert at taking a certain genre, organized crime, and expounding on it in ever more profound ways.
The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, brings Scorsese to the genre he is most adept and recognizable for. It is a dark movie about terrible people, as in Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed, but tinged with far more guilt and remorse than Scorsese has allowed his characters to experience perhaps since only Mean Streets.
The Irishman digs into the story of the infamous labour union leader Jimmy Hoffa. The film is t...